After learning how to use eagle and making a schematic and board layout was designed the boards were ordered.

Parts were purchased, mainly from Digikey, and were cheap and quickly shipped. Unfortunately, upon getting the boards weeks later, a mistake was made the on the pad layout of the real time clock, so in order to be able to test the circuit desperate things were done... We had to bend the leads of a DIP RTC in order to fit the misaligned pads, same with one of the resistors as well.

Despite these challenged, we persevered and became closer to our goal!